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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-16
WIT AND WISDOM.


Revenge is sweet, but it leaves
bad taste in the mouth.-PhiLadeLphiG
Call.
Doubt others more and yourself
less, and you will have more backbone
to Pomeroys Democrat
How much better is the love that
Is ready to die than the zeal that is
ready to kill.-Thonas Z. Lynch.
All men try to get the earth, but
the earth gets them. This is not joke;
it is the grave truth. Peoria Trans
cript.
Many men have knack of making
and saving dollars, but know abso-
lutely nothing about the best things of
this life.-DroUers' Journal.
Good temper, like a ummer day,
sheds a brightness over every thing.
1t is the sweetener of toll and the
soother of disquietude.-M Y Herald.
-Alwe-s on top: The hat.-Cba1-
pioe city Times. Always under foot:
The shoe. All, ha! We can do this
sort O thing, too Cincinnati Telegran1.i
De Baggs-Ponsonby, me boy, what
do you do in this weather to keep coolp
Ponsonby-Nothing. De Baggs-By
Jovei l don't know but that's a good
idea. Pittsburgh Dispatch.
EVERY tree is subject to dis
case" said a speaker in a fruit-grow-
ers' convention. 'What ailnent can
you find OH an oak?" asked the chair
man. Acorn" was the triumphant
reply.-Bost0n Globe.
They Were Both Shoers-
Jones, he keeps blacksmith shop,
His wife poultry pen;
Jones, he shoes the horse,
And his wife she shoes the hen.
-WhttehaU Times.
Up in the choir the tenor was maxi
ing love to the soprano in muffied
voice, while the preacher was waxing
eloquent in the pulpit below. You're
dear!" the young man had whisper
ed. ga doe, rather" the soprano
smiled back. "Oh, yes," returned the
tenor, you're the do, ia nil She
killed him with look. -The Farmer
and Manufacturer.
"A Michigan girl while picking
blackberries met black bear among
the briers. She turned to run and tore
her dress on brier so as to expose her
patent wire hustle. The bear, mistak-
ing the hustle for circus cage. struck
for tall timber, leaving the girl to 90
without hugging until dry goods
clerk closed his store at nine o'clock the
next eyening.-Newmaas Independent.
1t is a great gift to be born rich in
the eyes and ears. Some men have
carried before them an endless process
sion of beauty. There are charms for
them where others perceive barren
ness. There is a concert in the air all
the time for those whose ears are tuned
Alright. Trees harp for them, winds
roll their tones unsteady, and birds
and insects fill up the orchestra. RI
raj NeU- Yorker.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-16
WEST AND SOwTu.

JOHN THOMAS Ross, the colored murder
er of Emily Brown, an aged white woman,
whose dead body he sold to a medical col
lege for fifteen dollars, was hanged at
Baltimore, Md, on the 9th.
PHILIP HALTER, wealthy carpenter of
Springfield, ILL.,, who few days ago was
arrested for wife beating, became very de-
spondent over the matter and on the 9th
shot himself dead. Halter, a short time
before shooting himself, said his real name
was Philip Hooman.
On the 9th California celebrated the
thirty-seventh anniversary of her adms-
sion to the Union. The day was kept as a
holiday in all parts of the State.
The sudden death of ex. Congressman
William Munger, who represented the
Findlay CO., district in the Fortieth and
Forty-tirst Congresses, occurred on the 9th
at Findlay
AT Pierson, Mich, fire on the 9th de-
stroyed the post-ofice and half dozen
stores.
JACOB CLARK, of Louisville, seventy
years DID, was nearly burned to death on
the 9th by his. TWEEN eight-year-o wife
pouring coal-oil on him and setting it on
fire. n IG @
THE Michigan wheat yield this season is
SSOluidb0u db OtJ DuSu6lS.
ELIJAH HAYES and his wife, of Warsaw.
Ind, on the 9Th presented deed to prop
crty valued at $3.50, 900 to the Board of Mis-
sions OF the Methodist Episcopal church.
ALBERT G. GALLATIN, of Kentucky, a
member Of Congress from 1855 to 1859, ex-
pired on the 9th at Philadelphia.
INDICTMENTS were returned by the grand
jury in Chicago on the 10th against DR..
st. John, Levi DELL Captain John Irwin,
of the schooner E. Blake, and Captain
John Freer, of the schooner George Marsh,
for assisting William j. McGarigle to es-
cape.
WHILE a revival meeting was in progress
in Needmore, Tenn, on the 10th, the floor
of a school building gave way, and sixty
or seventy people went down twenty feet,
most of them being severely injured, and
one man fatally.
In a skirmish with band of Cuban fill
busters on the 10th off the Florida coast.
three of the Spanish soldiers were killed
and five wounded.
DIR. L. E. BoRCHEIM, a prominent physi-
clan of Atlanta Ga, and a victim of the
cocaine habit, committed suicide on the
18th.
FIVE large Minneapolis saw-mills were
burned on the 10th, causing an aggregate
loss of $50, 000
By vote of IS to 5 the grand jury at
Morris, Ill, refused on the 10th to return
an indictment against Miss Sarah Dodge,
charged with the murder of Walter S.
Babcock, the Chicago lumber dealer.
FRED RoNYo, in Jail at Clay Center,
Neh., awaiting trial for wife-murder. cut
his throat with razor and bled to death
on the 18th.
NEAR the North Carolina line in Georgia
gold was discovered on the 10th, the vein
promising rich yield.
On the evening OF the 10th the Ohio Re-
publcans opened their campaign at Cald-
well, Governor Foraker being the princi-
pal speaker.
IT was decided by the Iowa Supreme
Court on the 18th that the Prohibition law
authorizes the State authorities to prevent
the expectation of spirits as well as their
use in the State.
The biennial session of the Supreme
Legion OF the Ancient Order of United
Workmen Of the World opened at st.
Paul on the 18TH
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-16
TRUE BILLS FOUND.

st. John, Dell, Freer and Irving Indicted
at Chicago for Aiding McGarigle to Es-
cape.
CHICAGO, Sept. 1.-THE grand jury Satur-
day concluded its investigation into the cir
cumstances of ex-Warden William J. Nc
Garigle's escape from the custody of Sheriff
Matson the night of July % at McGarigle's
home at Lake View and returned indict-
ments as follows:
DR.. Leonard ST. John, treasurer of the Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, three indict.
ments-conspiracy, aiding and abetting the es-
cape OF prisoner and perjury.
Levi Dell, janitor of the college, two indict-
ments-eonspiracy and aiding escape.
John Irving, captain of the Canadian schooner
Edward Blake, two indictments - conspiracy
and aiding to escape.
John Freer, captain OF the American schooner
Marsh, two ndictments-conspiracy and aid
ing escape.
Early Sunday morning DR. Leonard st.
John and Janitor Levi Dell gave bond be-
fore Judge Waterman-the first in SIS, 900
to answer charges of perjury, conspiracy
and aiding prisoner to escape, and the lat
ter in So, 900 to answer to conspiracy and
aiding to escape.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-16
THE EACT.

A MEETING was held at Harris burg Pa,
on the 8th by represen tatives of ninety
brewing firms, and State organization
effected. A resolution was adopted de-
nouncing the High License law as blow
at personal liberty.
A MEETING composed of delegates from
about sixty labor and political organiza-
tons Of socialistc tendencies was held in
New York on the 8th and a new political
party formed in opposition to Henry
George. 1t is to be known as the Progress
sive Labor party
In the Mohawk On. W valley during a
tornado ON the sta several persons were
injured, hop yards were devastated, crops
were ruined and stock kllei. Fifty barns
were unroofed and Alfred W. Gilford's
house was demolished.
MIR. GLADSTONE in replying on the Sth to
the invitation asking him to attend the
constitutional centennial at Philadelphia
said that he would have as much to do in
engineering the Irish question as his
"residue of activity could accomplish
and he was therefore compelled to s'de.
cline the most fattering proposal he had
ever received"
The following are among the most i'm
portant business failures occurring on
the 8Lh: Chapman Il Holt, of Philad elphia,
coal dealers, for S217 900; F. G. Davenport,
of Boston, metal dealer, for 100000, and
Colby Duncan & Co., of New York. piano
manufacturers, for Sl75, 000
The steamer Wisconsin arrived at New
York on the Sth with Ais Mormon immi-
grants. The entire party left for Utah in
the evening.
A CAvE-IN at the new aqueduct at North
Yonkers, N. Y, on the 9th buried three
men under 100 feet of earth. The bodies
had not been dug out
The record of the base ball clubs in the
National League with the winnings of
the week ended on the 10th was as fol-
lows; Detroit (games won) 66; Chi
cage, 81; Philadelphia, SO; New York, 81;
Boston, 81; Pittsburgh, 43; Washington,
80; Indianapolis, 80.
REPRESENTATIVE delegates from all parts
of the State of Massachusetts met on the
10th at Boston and resolved themselves
into the Labor party. A platform was
adopted declaring, among other things, the
Henry George land doctrine, and favoring
woman suffrage. E. M. Chamberlain, of
Boston, was nominated for Governor, and
G. E. Marks, of Plymouth, for Lieutenant
Governor.
MISS MARY TUCKER, the nineteen-year-old
daughter of John S. Tucker, of New Ha-
ven, Conn, former State Representa-
tive, married John w. Hanchett, her faith
er's colored coachman, on the 12th and
disappeared with him.
A THREE. STORY tenement building in
Newark, N. j., was destroyed by fire on
the 18th, and four persons were fatally
burned.
ABOUT four thousand miners in the vicin-
ity OF Shamokin Pa, went out on strike
on the 18th.
The application of Johann Most, the
Anarchist, to become a citizen was re-
jected by the chief clerk of the superior
court of New York on the 18th. Most said
he would appeal to the courts.
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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

-Piety belongs to the wise, and is a
great promoter of happiness.
Since 1852 seventy-five Sandwich
Islanders have gone as foreign mission
aries.
The university students in Ger
many now number $4,000. In 1867
they numbered 1S,400.
Trinity church, New York City,
will erect a mission building ut 209
Fulton street, five stories high, to cost
$500, 000
"A writer in the Niaeteeists Century
proposes the establishment of we'll
endowed kitchen college for the sys-
tematic training of domestic servants.
In the morning when you awake,
accustom yourself to think first upon
God. and something in order to His
service; and at night let Him close
thine eyes.-Jeremy Taylor.
Gain a little knowledge every day;
one fact in day. How small thing
is one fact-only one. Ten years pass
by. Three thousand six hundred and
fifty facts are not a small thing.
There are seventy-six guilds in
London endowed by wealthy benefac-
tors for the benefit of different trades.
The annual income. of these endow-
ments amounts to 81, 200, 000.- Chicago
AdrGpce.
in yielding to one temptation the
way is opened for so many; nothing
will serve us day by day but humble
trust in Him who is able to keep us
from falling, and earnest striving to
watch as we'll as pray.-RuraJ NetO
Yorker.
fine New York Chinese Mission has
between 1900 and 5000 Celestials in
its Sabbath-schoo1s. About sixty have
joined the various churches. The first
Sabbath-school for these people was
founded in New York eighteen years
ago.-U United Presbyterian.
Less than a score of years have
passed since the founding OF the First
Congregational Church in Springfield,
Mo-, and already they have a strong
and fourishing college of conspicuous
promise, and five churches with an az
gregatC membership of 554.-Pubfc
Opinion.
During the past year from S7O,OOG
to $75, 600 have been raised from all
sources for the College and Seminary
of the Reformed GERMANY Church at
Lancaster, Pa. For the Nevin Memo
rial $40, GOO is needed; for the endow-
ment of the Alumni Professorship,
$4,000, and for the chemical Iabora-
tory, $20,000-M y Witness.
Like those fair New England lakes,
greened around with meadows, of
translucent depth and silver sand, on
whose surface armies of white lilies,
golden-crowned, unfold to the sun, so
the Christians heart should be. ALI
its feelings and affections should open
into life like those white lilies, and
deep amid the blossom petals should
be seen the golden crown of Love-
Beecter.
The principal of an academy in
New Jersey advertises in the city pa
per that he prepares "boys for bus. OF
col. Backward boys taught pri." If
you have boy who is little slow in
his gram. or dilator. in his nth. or
weak in his Lat. that you want to rush
for bus. posish. or a profesh., you
should write let. to the prime. of this
acad. for Giro. and cat containing
terms and a curric. The prof. head
is leY.-BuYGette.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-16
WASHED AWAY.
Floods in Arizona Do a Tremendous

Floods in Arizona Do a Tremendous
Amount OF Damage to the Railways.
Tucson, A. T., Sept 14.-The extent of
the destruction to the railroad is much
greater than at first supposed 1t ex-
tends at intervals from the Colorado
river to the Dragon mountains west of
Benson. One filing fifty feet high on the
Dragon grade is washed out for eight
miles. The washed-out places between
Benson and Tucson will take three
weeks to repair, so that trains can
pass over the road. The present is
the most destructive washout yet suf-
fered by the Southern Pacific road, and
it will cost not less than 5000, 900 to repair
the damage The heavy rains OF Monday
extended into Sonora, where five miles of
track and three bridges were washed out on
the Sonora road. The streets of Tucson are
flooded with perishable freight for the East
I'm market. A large quantity was sold by
me railroad
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SCORES or LIVES cost.

Tks Schooner Niagara Founders on Lake
Superior Thirteen Persons Go Down
viii, the Fated ycsseLsIany Fishermen
Said to HAYS Reeu Drowned Of the New
Foumdland eoast:
MARQUETTE, Mich, Sept "a Report
has just been received of the laundering of
the schooner Niagara, consort of the steamer
Raleigh, six miles this side of Whitefsb
point, Lake Superior, in Wednesdays
gale. She was commanded by
Captain Clements and was ore
laden from Ashland to Ashtabula
Her crew of ten men was lost, and the cap
tain's family was also reported aboard The
Niagara belonged to the same tow as the
schooner Liicerne, which was LOST last No
vember off Ashland with eleven lives. She
was owned by Corrigan, of Cleveland
Captain Delos Waite of the steamer Idaho,
just arrived, reports that the Niagara lies in
one fathom of water ten miles this side of
Whitefsh point and five miles from shore:
Her mizzen mast reaches above water and
her main and fore masts are floating near
by with ether pieces Of wreckage. Captain
Waite saw n6 traces Of heF Inflated crew
and says that no small boat could have
lived in the terrible sea which was running
there Wednesday
The United Empire arrived from the Saul6
during the day and reported twas the worst
storm her crew ever experienced, and when
the Idaho came up it was still running high.
Captain Waite thinks that in addition to the
crew of the Niagara there were number of
women aboard of her, as he noticed them
whet she was boilnd lip. All must have
persisted, doubtless thirteen, aid possibly
fifteen souls. The Niagara was in the tow
of the Australasia this year. not of the Ra-
leigh; as last year. The gale was one of the
worst on the lake for years. the wind reach
ing velocity of sixty miles ali hour.
ST. JOHNS, N. r., Sept S.-Reports daily
arriving from all parts of the country 60 to
show that the gale of the 2c5h of August
was one that will be long remembered for
the loss of life and extent of damage suS-
tanned from it
At and around the Island of ST Pierre the
gale ragged in all it's fury. A vessel, name
unknown, was wrecked on the back of
Langley Island, near St. Pierre, and as no
trace of her crew has yet been found it is
feared that they must all have been
drowned
One hundred thousand dollars will not
cover the extent OF damage to property slls=
tanned by Newfoundland vessels that were
on the Banks during the storm. Dories
| swept away, anchors slipped and burst sails
split and torn, line, twines and travis lost
and abandoned is the daily report, and many
a vessel arriving has even sadder record,
one of loss of life, to tell.
There are as many as five banking
schooners missing from BURN, FIVE from
Grand Bank and one from Burgeo, all of
which were on the Banks the morning of
the gale and have not yet been seen or
heard from. If the worst should come to
pass and that these vessels are lost the
bread winners Of hundreds will have found
watery graves.
Several large vessels went ashore on Dog
Island, hear st. Pierre. and in many cases
became total wrecks
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LATER.

JACOB A. TALBOT, young colOred man,
committed suicide at Baltimore on the 18th
by hanging, believing that that was the
true way of reaching Heaven.
ATRAIN with PSI track layers on board
was derailed on the 18th on the Aspen ex-
tension of the Midland road in Colorado,
and four of the men were instantly killed
and sixty-one were injured.
The value of breadst stuff exports from
the United States during August past was
S1S 3S2, 444, against SIS, 116, SS1 in August,
1856.
OVER a THOUSAND cigar makers were
LOCKED out by their employers on the 18th
at Boston, the trouble growing out of the
employment of an apprentice in violation
of union rules
AT Norwood, o., on the 18th the three
weeks'-old child of A. Ruscher was, by
mistake, given dose of carbolc acid by
its grandmother, and died in great agony.
OVER 450 Mormons from England arrived
in Kansas City on the 18th on their way to
Salt Lake City, The majority were wom-
en- and children.
JOHN WILSON and Walter Graves, farm
ers of Princeton, No., quarreled on the
18th over piece OF land and Wilson killed
Graves with hoe. The murderer was in
Jail.
WHILE workmen were erecting trestle
on the 18th near the Mudfork (O) mines
the structure fell, killing three men and
fatally injuring four others.
FIVE HUNDRED miners in the employ of
Cabel q &C., at Washington, Ind, struck
on the l3sh for higher wages.
IHE vote il the recent Texas election
was officially counted at Austin on the 18th
by Governor Ross, the Secretary of State
md A n
lowing result: For prohibition, 129, 273:
against prohibition, 221, 637
LIEUTENANT-G GOVERNOR r. w. WATER-
MAN, of California, took the cath of Office
as Governor on the 18th. He is a Repub-
hcan, although elected with the late Gov
ernor Bartlett, Democrat
IN Washington it was understood on the
18th that the retirement of Mr.. Porter. As
slstant Secretary of State, was precipi-
tated by some statements made by the as
slstant which were not in harmony with
Mr.. Bayard's views concerning the fisher
les negotiations.
The Italian Government on the 18th re.
ceived satisfactory news that the cholera
was decreasing in all the infected loeali-
ties throughout Italy.
LONDON advices of the 18th saw that in
recent storm the British bark Balaklava
lost ten men.
FURTHER advices of the 18th from Hall
Tax, N. s., say that over sixty fishermen
lost their lives by the recent gales and
over one hundred vessels were badly dam
aged.
THE ANARCHISTS 20 HANG.
Inc supreme Court of Illinois on the 18th
rendered decision in the case of the seven
condemned Chicago Anarchists. affirming
tne decision of the court below as to all the
defendants, and fixing November IL as the
day of execution.
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NOT A CANDIDATE.

General Fa;rchild Refuses to Allow His
Name to BE Presented for Reelection
as Commander-in-Ch Chief CT the Grand
Army.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept IA special
from Madison, Wis, to the kvening IviScon-
SIN, says: Commander Chief Fairchild says
that he is not candidate for reelection at
the coming meeting, and has so expressed
himself to hundreds of veterans who are
urging him to stand for reelection, espe-
c1ally as they were anxious that he should
be vindicated; but General Fairchild says
that he can not afford to devote another
year to the duties of the Commander-in-
Chief, which are such as to consume all his
lime, to the entire exclusion of his private
interests He says he has no idea who will
succeed him
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THE EARTH'S RICHES.
Pure Copper Unearthed at Monroe, WI
Rock Salt i'm Kansas

Pure Copper Unearthed at Monroe, wis.
Rock Salt in Kansas.
GALENA, Ill, Sept. IA 10O-pound
chunk OF pure copper, together with num-
her of smaller specimens of the same metal,
have been unearthed by Chicago Freeport g.
Dodgeville railroad graders in the town of
Monroe, Wis. A company has been formed
to prospect for the mineral, of which it is
believed there is a large and valuable vein
in that locality.
New YORK, Sept 14.-The Engineering
NeaOs has received details of the great strike
OF rock salt at Ellsworth, Kan. The vein is
l65 feet thick and 96 per cent. pure, the
other per cent being lime and magnesia,
but no potash. The salt is pure white and
fit for table use on grinding only. The vein
is only 705 feet below the surface.
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ENGLAND'S LABOR PARTY.
Some OF tho Demands Made by the New
Political Party.

LONDON, Sept 14-The executive COM
mittee of the new National Labor party in
itiated at the recent Trades Congress. has is=
sued an address ANNOUNCING it's pro-
gramme as follows: adult suffrage, ono
man to have one vote; the payment OF
members of Parliament by the State,
free education, land REFORM poor-law re-
form, the maintenance of free trade, but tho
abolition of State paid counties; home rule
and local government reform and religious
equality" The address is limited TO
the mention of these heads, but in
the light of declaration made by lAcln-
bers of the executive committee land rc-
form includes heavy taxation, leading ulti-
mately to naturalization of the lands; free
trade means reciprocity. and religious
equality implies the abolition of the State
church. The committee asks that a fund Of
$40, 900 be raised for the first years CAM
paign, besides local funds for local Labor
candidates.
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THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
FROM WASHINGTON.


DURING the seven days ended on the 9th
there were 152 business failures in the
United States, against 175 the previous
seven days.
DURING August the estimated number of
acres restored to the public domain is 21,-
1923, 600 exclusive OF 1,513,000 acres within
the limits of the indian reservation.
The exchanges at twenty-sIx leading
clearing houses in the United States DUR
ing the week ended on the 10th aggre-
gated $S71, 466,776, against s945, GA, 76O the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1885, the increase
amounts to 9.9 per cent.
A HEAVY reduction in the condition of
corn in the West since the last report was
noted by the Agricultural Department on
the 10th.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 18th par.
doned Thomas r. Knight, John A. Brooks
and Henry Patz, convicted of man
slaughter in the western district of Ar
kansas and sentenced to Imprisonment.
They were Indian police, and killed man
while attempting to arrest him.
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SELF-DEFENsE is one of the deadliest
maladies now prevailing in Kentucky.
Not long ago Ed Cooley, living near
Lancaster, while suffering from the dis
ease killed George Scott with an axe.
lie had another attack the other night,
when two brothers named Green, being
inspired by liquor, fired their pistols at
him. Cooley coolly returned the little
attention with shotgun and revolver.
One Green was killed and the other IA
tally wounded. MIR. Cooley is Just
now convalescent but relapse into
self-defense may overcome him at any
time,